Did JEP! Run on Regular TV?
John
regular show) run on regular TV, and if so, did it run to comply with
educational/informational children's TV requirements?
Kavanagh
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> regular show) run on regular TV
Zach Horan
>the
Nope, it ran/still runs only on Game Show Network IIRC.
Brett A. Pasternack
I thought some local stations DID run Jep! on weekend mornings.
At any rate, the show DOES count as educational content, that I recall
specifically.
John Sergent
As would a certain other show that I dare not name whose name ended in
the number that is the current year.
Dale Patterson
I remember seeing Wheel 2000 and Jep! on Saturday mornings here on my
local CBS affiliate. Before someone tells me it must have been somethign I
saw on GSN, this was LONG before I got GSN :-)
Sincerely,
Pat Patterson
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Zach Horan
>> Nope, it ran/still runs only on Game Show Network IIRC.
>I thought some local stations DID run Jep! on weekend mornings.
>
>At any rate, the show DOES count as educational content, that I recall
>specifically.
The Philly area never aired Jep! in syndication if it did air there. It's
"Sister" show Wheel 2000, when it was New New New, aired on CBS in 1997-98, and
a few months later premiered on GSN.
John
>
>At any rate, the show DOES count as educational content, that I recall
>specifically.
If so, how come regular JEOPARDY doesn't? And don't say "the questions are
geared to adults." The show is targeted to general audiences, which includes
kids.
Brett A. Pasternack
>
> >I thought some local stations DID run Jep! on weekend mornings.
> >
> >At any rate, the show DOES count as educational content, that I recall
> >specifically.
>
> geared to adults." The show is targeted to general audiences, which includes
> kids.
Because the requirement in the law is for educational programming *for
children*. Granted, if a station has a substantial number of children
watching regular J!, they could argue that it should count...I don't
know whether that's been tried or not. But the requirement is definately
in regards to children's programming.
BTW, I'm pretty sure that the requirement was the impetus for Jep! (and
Wheel 2000) being created in the first place.
RMK
"Brett A. Pasternack" wrote:
>
> John wrote:
> >
> > >I thought some local stations DID run Jep! on weekend mornings.
> > >
> > >At any rate, the show DOES count as educational content, that I recall
> > >specifically.
> >
> > If so, how come regular JEOPARDY doesn't? And don't say "the questions are
> > geared to adults." The show is targeted to general audiences, which includes
> > kids.
>
> Because the requirement in the law is for educational programming *for
> children*. Granted, if a station has a substantial number of children
> watching regular J!, they could argue that it should count...I don't
> know whether that's been tried or not. But the requirement is definately
> in regards to children's programming.
>
Certainly has more credibility then some of the other things that
were tried, such as saying "The Flintstones" taught kids evolution and
"The Jetsons" taught about life in the future.
The 15th Ex-Husband of E.D. Donahey
>Did the junior version of JEOPARDY (do not confuse with the kiddie weeks of
>the
>educational/informational children's TV requirements?
I can tell you for a fact that it did NOT. I actually applied for the show and
tried out (didn't make it, but I'm pretty glad...). When I got the tryout
letter, it was from Game Show Network.
-Tom Sabbatelli
Usually mistaken for Randy Amasia
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Brett A. Pasternack
>
> >
> >Did the junior version of JEOPARDY (do not confuse with the kiddie weeks of
> >the
> >regular show) run on regular TV, and if so, did it run to comply with
> >educational/informational children's TV requirements?
>
> I can tell you for a fact that it did NOT. I actually applied for the show and
> tried out (didn't make it, but I'm pretty glad...). When I got the tryout
> letter, it was from Game Show Network.
It was produced to be aired first-run on GSN *and* to be sold to local
stations needing to fulfill their educational requirements.
Stephanie Saczawa
Saturday mornings on CBS back-to-back with Wheel2K. Here in Canada, it ran for
a while Sunday afternoons on YTV.
Stephanie : )
Zach Horan
>ran
>Saturday mornings on CBS back-to-back with Wheel2K
The CBS station in your area could have run JEP!, but it was a syndicated show,
seen on GSN and (supposedly) on some stations around the country.
Mark J.
>It was produced to be aired first-run on GSN *and* to be sold to local
>stations needing to fulfill their educational requirements.
Actually, I believe that the ultimate goal was to sell it to CBS along with a
second season of "Wheel 2000." When CBS, responding to atrocious ratings,
dropped all of the live-action kid shows and hired Nelvana to come up with six
animated series for weekend mornings, that goal had to be scrubbed and the
shows were history.
As some of you may know, the Nelvana series also bombed. However, thanks to
the CBS-Viacom merger, they started a lineup of Nick Jr. pre-school shows on
weekend mornings in September. It's garnering the first good ratings for CBS
on Saturday since the glory days of "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the 80s. Who'd
knew?
Mark Jeffries
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John
>the CBS-Viacom merger, they started a lineup of Nick Jr. pre-school shows on
>weekend mornings in September. It's garnering the first good ratings for CBS
>on Saturday since the glory days of "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the 80s. Who'd
>knew?
Too bad one of those series isn't DOUBLE DARE!
Ted Patchell
regard to the host...did I hear correctly that it's hosted by Bob Bergen? What
else has he done? And why isn't he being suggested for some other game show
projects? I thought he handled the show quite well, has good TV presence, and
I think he could be good on the new "Pyramid."
-Ted Patchell.
Mark J.
Bob Bergen does mostly voice-over work, both commercials and animation. He's
the voice of the Disney Channel ("Movies at 7 p.m. Eastern on Disney...") and
was the original voice of fX back in the good old days of "Breakfast Time" and
"BackChat" ("fX. TV Made Fresh Daily."). Since Anne Sweeney runs the
Disney/ABC cable operations and was the original CEO of fX, you can guess that
she likes his work.
And Bergen did a more than decent job on "Jep!" I don't think he's getting the
kiddie show rap--if Ryan Secrest can get a prime time gig on NBC hosting the
Saturday movies, Bergen can definitely get a game show gig if he wants one.
Mark Jeffries
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